Family Engagement Swot Analysis

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS
1. Launched a newly designed website
2. Fully staffed communication team as of mid-April
3. Developed Community Engagement Toolkit training and began training central office staff
4. Provided 19 professional development trainings for community partners and parent leaders, in addition to 10 web editing workshops at schools
5. Piloted Family Partnership training at Equity Institute and for central office professional development providers
6. Completed Seattle Public Schools (SPS) Family Partnership Landscape Analysis in partnerships with Community Center for Educational Results and the Institute for Educational Leadership

STRENGTHS
1. Communications/Engagement: Strong communication tools, including end-user-designed website (fall …show more content…

Community Partnerships: Robust data sharing system and national model; comprehensive professional development for partners and schools; partnership working committee including Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and strategic partners; supportive board policy; sample contracts; planning tools; inventory of CBOs, schools and whole child supports.
3. Family Partnerships: Board policy outlining elements of family engagement (i.e. welcoming environments); some knowledge of “the how” – dual capacity framework; expert staff; current Family Engagement Task Force charge with developing a clear definition and multiyear action plan; School Family Engagement Action Teams; Family Development Opportunities (i.e. Family Connector University); 9th-grade success grant (Engaging Families in High School Success) – surfacing family engagement best practices for high school students and for transition years; partnership with the …show more content…

Communications/Engagement: Build capacity of school leaders and others to tell a powerful story; shift stories from deficit to asset based; invest more in social/video and strategic story telling; create web governance structure and clear leads; revise policies to meet new vision for communications/engagement; adapt community engagement toolkit for schools that includes “co-design”; community engagement advisory committee; two-way engagement tools for school leaders; internal social media site; texting for schools; new strategic plan and opportunity to refine messaging.
2. Community Partnerships: Improved data dashboards for CBOs – launch fall 2018; CBO portal and improvements to “match making”; increased accountability on use of funds for partners; funders interested in supporting differentiated partnership model.
3. Family Engagement: Growing commitment to authentic family engagement; multiyear action plan by June including common definition; family guide development; rubrics and self-evaluation documents for schools; comprehensive PD plan; audit of best practices in outlier schools. Proposed for 2018-19: Partnership and Engagement coaches modeled on work of the Creative Advantage. Three to four principal coaches on stipend to support pilot schools in auditing, visioning and planning on how to improve both family engagement and alignment of partnerships and bring coherence to the

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